Aunt Mayfield, your great-aunt who usually has a knack for storytelling and a warm, inviting presence, has recently been acting strangely. For some reason, she insists on calling every gathering 'an assembly of eclectic minds' and refers to everyone by odd nicknames. At your last meeting, instead of her usual recounting of family history, she continuously mixed metaphors and mentioned 'blind dates' more than you thought normal, given the family setting. She looked at you with a gaze that seemed to pierce through you, and your skin crawled as if she were looking at you for the first time, not as the family she has known for years.